, MASH B NTU AUTHO IllES' 6d. ~ SOUTHERN EDITIO N Thursday, July 20, 1961 5c. ACTION COUNCIL LAUNCHES NON­ §ii1l1l11l1l1l1Jl11II11I11II11II1I111111I1I1II1II1 1II 11I1I111I111111111111I11II1 1I11111I11111 1111111111111 111 111J11111111111111111 111 11 111 ffi CO-OPERATION CA~P A I GN I ~~~~~~~~~~ JOHANNESBURG. Travelled 12 Days To Meet THE second phase of the attack on the Governm ent being steered by the National Action Council is the NON­ CO-OPERATION CAMPAIGN. Committee That Never Arrived It will be not merely a refusal to work Government From Ruth First machinery , but mass opposition to the Governme nt, in the SWd~ ~~ t~ec:~~7t ~:~1 M~~:~h~:~ef~oS~U:~ form of active campaigns and pressure by the people for deep changes in South Africa. West Africa to Maun in Bechuanaland to give evidence to the United Nations Committee on T~e s ha p~ of the 1l:ew phase ~as TIES. These are the cornerstones of South West Africa; but by the time he arrived outlined this week In a detailed apartheid in practice. in Maun he found that the UN Committee visit statement from the NATIONAL The Urban Bantu Councils must "as off-blocked by Britain's refusal to give ACTION COUNCIL. be fought like the Coloured Ad- visas to the Commisslon members unless they CORNERSTONES OF visory Council and the proposed J:ave an undertaking not to try to cross into APARTHEID Indian Advisory Council. The Ur- South West from Bechuanaland. From now on, says the NA- ban Bantu Councils are dummy Mr. Josef travelled from Windhoek to Cape TIONAL ACTION COUNCIL we councils, not only undemocratic, Town, then to Mafeking and Francistown to call on the African people and all but dangerous. They are intended to reach Mauri, throwing out a false trail to put other democrats to fi2ht tooth and ensnare the African people into co­ the Special Branch off his tracks. nail against BANTU AUTHORI- operating with the government in He said his organisation, the South Wesli ------1their own oppression, African People's Ol'2anisation, had laid plaD'lto get the United Nations Commission into South ARMED THUGS West to bear evidence from the people there. The South African police state is His evidence would have been about condi­ C.P.C. Leaders tryin~ to find thuzs amone the neo­ tions in Ovamboland (Mr. Josef is an Ovambo), ple to help in maintaining White about the application of apartheid to South rule. West, and ahont farm labour conditions and the Banned For The Government says the so­ farm labour contract system. called homeguards will protect the 'It 's no good talking abou t all this here, people against "hostile elements", though," he said. "The United Nations Five Yeors meaning the people's political or­ Committee MUST come to South West CAPE TOWN . ganisations. So the homeguards will be made to do the same work as Africa." MR. Reg. September, General the armed bands used by the Bantu (Further pictures on page 5) Secretary of the South Authorities in the Reserves; and African Colou red People's Con­ they will be aimed to control the gress, and Mr. Alex ia Guma, people. CPCExecutive member, have • The Urban Councils and the homeguards mu,t be ex!,osed, and "Committee Must Visit been banned under the Suppres­ foul!ht. sion of Commun ism Act from • The City Councils should not attending gatherings for the imnlement the new law. next five vears. The tribal "amba ssadors" al­ ready anpointed MUST RESIGN. Cables Lutuli The banning notices, signed by S.W.A.", •Those who collaborate with the Minister of Justice, Mr. F. C. the Government's dummy bodies Erasmus. were served on Mr. Sep­ DURBAN. and work the machinery of oppres­ ~ tember and Mr. la Guma at their slon must be isolated. TELEGRAM urging the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations Organisation to use all places of work. The notices were The Republic. says the National .... means to get the Committeeon South West Africa to reach the territory was sent last week dated June 23, 1961. Action Council. was born in an at­ by Chief A. 1. Lutuli, former President-General of the banned African National Congress. The In a statement to New A2e. Mr. mosphere of strife and disruption telegram stated that only by entering S.W.A. could the Committeeget adequate information. September said that the bannlngs and will continue to be plagued bv were a flagrant assault on the Col· discord and trouble. meeting with In another cable to the British Prime Minister, Mr.Harold Macmillan, Chief Lutuli states: oured People's Congress. "Africans throughout the Continent deplore your Government's action in giving conditional "They are in keeping with their ever-increasing opposition from the 'bans on the Communist Party. the oppressed African people. visas to U.N.O. Committee on South West Africa and therefore creating obstacles to their entry ANC and the PAC. and more re­ SIGN OF WEAKNESS in terms of the U.N. resolution. . centlv the Coloured Convention," The intensity of public feeling "This action is considered as yielding to pressure from Vcrwoerd Governmen t and a Mr. September said. against apartheid and white sup­ breach of tmst to Africans in territo ry," ends the cable. RISING TIDE remacy is now greater than ever be- "Our banninus and the banning of (Cont inued on page 4) Illi:::~~~~~=====~=====~=:::=:~=:::=:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~) manv other individuals are an at­ tempt on the part of the National- I ------i5t~ to stem the ri,ing tide of onnosition to their policy of racial discrimination. "While the ncople are beset by Group Areas, iob reservation. pass laws, etc., and have no franchise ANG RY SILENCEIN PONDOLAND richts. and as long as the maiority at each location he asked the people still in jail and his vans harass and of the nooulation suffers at the to applaud him to show their ac­ arrest us every day," they said. hands of the ruling minority. so People Discussing New ceptance of his plea. Another indication that the people lone shall the people continue to "He was greeted with stony sl­ are still supporting the struggle speak up in protest, Hence the lence at every meetin~ ••• Only the against Bantu Authorities is that, widespread demand for a national Methods Of Struggle cblefs and their home guards despite threats of deportation and convention in order 10 prepare a applauded," said the leaders. arrest, whole locations are collecting At Amangutyani Location, they new constitutton for our country," From M. P. Nalcker that I got when I interviewed four funds to help in the defence of their ROTTE N added, Chief Mbungwa told the leaders. Magistrate that those who clapped Mr. September said that more .. D.URBAN. ra~~d:e~~a ~~r~ e~hth ei ~ l:g ~l ~~i~:r~ "We are here today only because: and more neonle were beginning to their hands were only members of THE situation III Eastern after they had been charged a the horneguard. If this sign was our bail was paid by the people," realise that thinzs were rotten at second time for attending illegal the leaders told New Age. the foundation: that there could not Pondoland, the scene of to have any significance the people some of the most gallant and meetings. The first charge against present should also clap their hands. Asked what the next step was in he oeace and contentment in South the struggle against Bantu Autho­ Africa until all neople had a say heroic .s ~ rugg~es against Bantu ~i~~o~~ s quashed by the Appellate The Magistrate told the people that it was apparent that they were rites, the leaders replied that this in the running of the state. Authorities, IS by no means not prepared to forget the past and matter was being discussed by the "I believe that the Govemm ent MEETINGS people. has begun to fear the 2I'owth of the "back to normal," as the autho- that they were "being foolish." Coloured People's Congress, that is citieswould like one to believe. Recently, the Pondo leaders said, At another meeting, after the "One thinir Is certain thoueb," why they have taken this action "The people are stilI full of spirit the local magistrate of Bizana held , Magistrate had left, the people told they said. ''we must evolve new azalnst us. But T ~m sure that OUT and fuJI of fi2ht ••• defiant in the meetings at Mzize, Amangutyani, the Chief of the area that they had methods of struggle • • • The RBI membershio will not be intimi­ face of widespread arrests and inti- Kanyayo and Amandegani Loca­ decided never to speak to any White Committee and meetings on the dated." Mi. September stated. "For midation • •• There is an angry lions, urging the people 10 "go back representative of the Government Hill have served their purpose." myself, this ban will not deter me silence that enJ:ulfs our once happy to their Chiefs and to respect them." until all their leaders were released. (The Hill referred to is Ngqusa from playing mv )Jart whenever and and carefree land • • •" He also asked them to let bygones "The Magistrate wants us to for­ Hill, where II tribesmen were killed wherever pl}Ssible." These were some of the replies be bygones. At the end of his speech \let the past, but our leaders arc by police fire onJune..6. 1~6 0.) NEW AGE, T HURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961

Give Us Hands For Freedom I appeal to you. the 29 Black States of Africa, to give IS U.N.LETTING US us hands to achieve freedom in South Africa. South Africa should also be DOWN AGA IN? painted black on the maps.We II RICANS MUST UNITE are too poor to buy the paint. We suffer under the pass laws. starvation wages and are home­ rOB rREEDOM less. We also are deprived of all human rights. So far we are given liquor instead of freedom. We want only one thing-the vote and the right to be elected to Par­ liament. A. W. MAAPALA Pretoria.

Officials Broke Down His Home One cold rainy afternoon the Inspector of the Goodwood Town Council arrived at rnv house followed by a big Council truck full of workmen armed with choppers. These men were ordered to enter and demolish the house. After taking evervthing out, they removed the roof and chop­ ped the walls away. When we came back from work there was no house for us to sleet) in. We went to the owner of the farm who claimed he knew nothing of this. We then went to the Good­ wood Town Council where We were told that the Inspector had NALEDI NTLAMA no right to demolish the house Maseru. without the permission of the Council. Yet even as I write this letter I :1'11 sitting outside under a tree. Is "New Age" Is Way Why Should Mandela this the way to unite the people under the Verwoerd Republic? Out in Front Give Himself Up? Our leaders are right when they I have now been receiving New Th ere is wild talk by some of say the neoole must not be afraid A ~ e ~ho i rr::~ o~~ ~: e ~;K~; ~ea~~~f~ or misled by the Government. I for two years. This paper have never attended any political U~i~nm fh ~o r:llin{h;m~t~~~ ~~ p~~~ should come out of hidinc and be meeting and I know nothing of added together. And not just con- arrested, Otherwise it will prove nolitics, but I am learning the hard wav. cerninc the Union. On Cuba. S.E. th~eF~r~ ) t h ~~ ~l~k~ u~n~~~~d ~bout Asia. Central Africa etc. elc. New Mandela, they must c::III on their ~ ,, ~ ~~ ~:c:o~ ~~f ~:~to;o:~° Te~ i ------Age is way out in front. su nposed genuine leaders like when she hears that children are Thi s is probably because you Jo lobe and K gosan e to ~ive them- sleepina under a tree because they WE W ANT POLITICAL AND applv a scientific analysis to all selves up and be nul behind bars. have no home to cover them? And pro blems. and give sensiblc- Why should Nelson Mandela this home ann the homes of many ~~i~~:i ~~~~~h~dsS c~n%a~h~~~k~ ~~~ech the~ s i :r~ r kTh~~ ~~~u~e~~J other Non-Whites are being ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY destroyed by the Verwoc rd Re­ oil the chains of poverty and sub- him themselves- they get paid for public. jec~ ~~da ru~k~ufi:~~ o~~ I~sn~· Africa is waking up from her all my it. If he is arrested he will prove JAMES PETERSEN centuries of slavery an d is striving Our Leaders Fight For South African friends, in your that he is a eenuine leader by Cape Town. struggle for a new age in the never leaving the country as their to take her place in the sun. It is imperative for Africa to root out The People tr oubled country. May South l e a~e:~d~;~' is not in the catezorv imperialism and esta blish a hu­ T too am 'lorry that not all the Africa follow Guine a along the of PAC pseudo-politicians with We Must Be Ready Africans pull together as Mr. Ted road to socialism. and soon! iuncle policies. His line does not mane system of living. Holgate says in his letter to New MIKE DOWN and think in terms of colour. but of Before civilisation came from Age (June 22). True. he paid his MO SEEDAT humanity and of a multi-racial For Sacrifice labourers for the three days when the west this continent knew no ~ ~~~~ s~~ l ~~ eh n e , harmonious society. ' We the African people have no they did not work. But our bro­ starvation . Land was owned in thers are still in jail today. England. J ohan:~~~~ B. NGCAYIYA riahts as citizens of this country. The laws are made for the good common. Everyone had freedom By saying that Chief Lutuli, gjlUlllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1l1I1111 111111 111111111 11 1111 111 11 11 11 11 111 11 111 11 1111 111 11 11 11l!: of the intruders. What can we do to live where they chose, cattle M ande la and Sobukwe want power onlv for themselves he has to remedy this? We must unite grazing Was ample, land was culti­ among ourselves. insulted the whole of the South Soon all Africa will be liberated vated and the fruits of the land Africa which fichts for freedom. I I FETE OF NEW AGE I from the claws of imperialism. But were enjoyed by everyone. al so do not wish to blame him. to achieve this there must be no However. rather than that he ~ ~ sell-outs amo ng us. anxious to When the "cultu red" people of should insult our leaders. he IN THE BALANCE avoid going to jail and hoping to the West came they abolished the should put his staff to work next time. - OURCape Town Committee in far too slowly. The signals live in splendour. common ownership of the land busy organising a big We know that both the ANC MARGAR ET NYHABA is are showing red wherever we and divided our fertile lands into Bloemfontein. AII·Day Fete to take place in look and we are more than a and PAC are banned. Sobukwe is farms for self gain. The sons and a few months time, with a tar­ little anxious about the imme­ in jail togeth er with other freedom 2et of ~500. diate future. fighters. Yet when tbe three day daughters of Africa were left the While the main drive will Just look at the total for stay-at-home was at hand leaflets totally inadequate reserves which An Answer To naturally take place in Cape this week: a miserable £42! were distributed by the police and soon became impoverished. The Town, the success of the Fete That'slxlrely sufficient to pay members of PAC saying, "We youth were forced to work on the Douglas Mitchell will be all the greater if our for our postage stamps, Ano­ are against Mandela and the stay­ at-home." The differences between farms and the mines by the intro­ I would like to answer what friends throughout the country ther few weeks at that rate and M r. Douglas Mitchell said in lend a hand. you can kiss New Age good. the African people must go, for duction of hut and poll tax. this will endanger Africa as a Durban on July 5. Bead-work, novelties, toys, bye, He said the people sbould re­ new and second-hand clothing, Stop THINKING about whole. The peoples of Afri ca must There are fellow black men in strive for both political and econo­ member the coalition of the 1930's woollies, materials for making sending us YOUR donation! and that there should be a shadow up-whatever you can send us SEND IT! the SAP helping to oppress his mic democracy. In order to at­ children and himself. On the other tain this, the man in the street government to take over when this will help make those stalls Last Week's Donations: Government crashes-led by Sir more attractive and swell the Cape Town: hand we have men like Mandela must force the leaded to decide who is living in biding. his busi­ on controversial issues affecting de Villiers Graaff. proceeds. E.M.B. R3.80. K.P. R IO, J think Mitchell is living in a Please write in and let us Ken R2. Bob R4, Prem R I. ness closed, his children without the world in general. We must not hide behind meaningless terms like dreamland. The United Party is know what you are prepared ~~~;O.R2. Norbas RIO. Engel a father . to do. We may have some Are we afraid to sacrifice when "Africa n Personality" and "Neu­ dead and must forget ab out taking the path is already paved? Let us tralism." over power. The people's govern ­ ideas to help you get going. Port Elizabeth: ment with its leaders at Lower In the meantime that £500 i; Doc R2, Sister R2. Brother not forget that "he who acquires knowledge but does not practise Only leaders with the interests Tug ela , Ngwavuma etc. is ready still very much a bird-in-the­ RI. Chips R2. Fr iend R2.IO. of the people at heart are realis­ to take oyer at any minute. The bush. and New A2e needs Johanne shurg: it. is as one who ploughs but does not sow." ing the importance of economic United Party can rather support Bennie and Mary R40. democracy. the Nationalists. § Donations have been coming Grand Total: R84,10 , § TEBALO P. MAKATE . INKULULEKO B. NOCERO ~1II 11 11 11l 1ll"!I"'!I"!I I!! " ""' ''' 'UUII ''' '' '''''' J! J! II01l!''II!IJ!II!''''II I1![Il!!!UIIIIIIIIIIIII''1I111IIf11"f11I11I11I11I~ Johannesburg. Port Elizabeth. Nyanga, NEW AGE. THURSDAY. JULY 20. 1961 3 l!J1II1I11 1I1 111I1I1II!11I1I1I1I111111111 1111 II11 1111I111I11 11111I 1111 1111 11111 11 11I11 1111 11 1111I 11 1111111 1111111 11I11111 1111 111 1111111111111 111111 1111 11111 111IIIUIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUII!4 SO LOVEDALE STUDENTS IWORKERSWANT UNION RECOGNITIONI REFUSED RE-ADIMISSION Sequel To May 29 Strike

From Govan Mbeki run by the Bantu Educatio n De ­ partment. As pract ically all African PORT ELIZABETH. education ii now run by Nati onalist THE Superintendent (Princi- Party adherents these students will pal) of Lovedale High find it practically impossible to complete their education in this School has informed about 50 country. students that the Department of Bantu Education has decided REPRESENTATIONS IGNORED that they must be dismissed. The dismissals follow the closure Most of the students affected by of Lovedale by the authorities after this decision are senior students who the students had stayed away from are due to write the final Matric classes from May 29-31 in respo nse Examinations at the end of the year. to the call of the Nation al Action There are also a number of studen ts Council. At the time, the students who were to have written the J.e. made represen tations to have some Examination s, of the most irksome regulation s re­ Amongst the expelled students are moved. but the authorities ignored some whose parents are teachers in these demands. Bantu Education Schoo ls, as well as The authorities at the Healdtown sons of some of the former members High and Traini ng School have not of the Fort Hare staff who resigned yet indicated what their intent ions towards the end of last year befor e are. Some students completed the the Nationalist Government con­ appliciaton forms sent to them, but verted Fort Hare mto a tri bal others did not. college. Healdtow n is due to re-open on A section of the crowd which attend ed a general meeting of the African Municipal Workers' Union in The students who have now been July 24, yet up to last week-end no Durban last week to discuss the new threat to their union b} the Durban City Council (see last week's expelled are black-listed and will student knew whether he would be New Age). The meeting condemned the Council 's move to sidestep the union and establish company-unlon­ not be re-admitted at anv school re-admitted or not. type works commit tees instead, Two worker s in the City Market who were approa ched last week to serve on such a Committee refused point blank and it is believed the Council wfll find difficulty in gettin& the workers to accept its policy. B.A.D. OFFICES A ND RECORDS DESTROYED Defeats For Bolton At

Y PORT ELl ZARETH'.T I PletehurIsdaydes night,troyed July by13. A firell thelaICst- Garment Workers' Meet·lng 'l"~To~~ c ~~ ~ t~h ~~li}y~ t~ o ~:;;~~ d~~~~y~~.lI :ed in the offices were ar.e attac hed the o ~~es of the Dis- Mt. Ayliff is one of the districts DURBAN. livelihood (the union has a closed was also defeated. tnct Bantu Authori ties, were com - which make up the Regional Au - shop) was being debarred, Mr. Seedat told New Age that the ~t~~ &~c;~~ti~ nh~~ ~dl~~~d r~~g~~ C~~~~~~L~~ ; eC'G:::i CASE MADE WORSE ~~~~~~mth: r~:ct i~i~ arfoc~~ra~f:r ~~ of consistent resistance to the BAD Workers' Union (Natal), sol- Mr. Bolton's case was made the Garment Workers' Union. measures such as the rehabilitation fered a severe defeat at a recent worse when he told the meeting "BOLTON MUST GO" ~~~~;e, a~:c\~e o:e J~~~~ n~~ Pth~ general meeting of this union that the Soecial Branch were ''To do so we have to get rid of peasant stock, and lately the Bantu when members overwhelmingly invited to attend the meeting in ~~e:~~t~;: f~ltt~~hpr~~ct~:;et h: A ~ ~h ~~ ~i e: ~ a result of such resist- rejected two motions initiatjed ~::~Ie t~~~~r. a check on members, this device is be.ng used ~~il~ d t ~t~ u<;h~ e ~ e ~~l aabg~~ ~~~oer U;~~ bYt~~~'rst was a motion to expel In the discussion that followed to .~~~~~c h t ~h;u ~ :~~~ r s h~l ' garment less. the reha bilitation fences con- Messrs M. A. Seedat, M. Matthew s these mo tions Mr. M. A. Seedat workers are walking the streets while tinue to be destroyed, and Govern- and M.P. Teddy, leaders of the pro- pointed out that Mr. Bolton and ne~ members are being accepted. ment supporters have, at times, had gressive wing within the union. certai n members of the Executive Afnca.n workers are not being ~ ~ e ~e~~ v~e n~eed i ~n~~~ ;~lic~e p;~~~~ at~~~e:e~n ~h ;o~~~ ;~e;~ve~a rfr ~~ ~~r~i ~:i~?tht~:e ~~~ja~ p~ ~~ ~~h t ~~ ili~~;~se1h ll~t~ff~~~ s ~h~onw~~~s e~~d tion. attending the meeting, on the leader sh ip. conditions of the organised non­ grounds that he was not a member Asked to explain the C~ j : l lg e~ African workers, every effort to get EMERGENCY STILL of the Union, was also crushingly against the three men Mr. Bolton ~ properly organised African Union In this district as well as in others defeated when it was pointed out refused to do so. Eventu allv one ot IS thwar ted by Mr. Bolton and his that six membe rs of the Special his sup porters, seeing that the followers. in Eastern Pond olaa d and the Br~ nc h Tra nskei the emergency regulations were allowed to be present majority of those present were "We have no doubt that the which were proclaimed on Novem­ while the legal representative of opposed to the origin al motion. workers are rcalisin~ more and ber 30, 1960, still apply and hun - those whom the motion tried to de- tried to get the matte r ref, rred m!'r e that only true trade unionism prive of their membership and back to the Executive . This motion WIll save them from exploitation. ~~g~u~f icli~;g :.re still held in jail 1 _ The victories we gained at the ~ ... I general Uleetin ~ are, in mv opinion The emergency regulatio ns give unlimited powers to the police, ~~:: the bealnning," said Mr. See= BAD Com missioners and Chiefs to arrest people without a warrant and thro w them into jail for indefinite periods. Rubens' Stand On P.E. Lecturer and Wife '.­ Apartheid Arrested on Emergency CAPE TOWN . l\{Rso~:hold Xf~fcea~~ ' on~e~: Charge known pianists, has stated that he will refuse in future to ap­ PORT ELIZABETH. ~~~~s . before segregated audi - Sylvia Nomanesi Jojo, IS-year­ Mr. Harold Strachan, a lecturer old daught er of Chief Ntlabati at the Technical College here, and This decision was taken in his wife Mar gareta have been accordance with the policy of Jo]o , of Mt. Ayliff. who was the non-racial South African forced to part with her father 9 arrested on a char ge of public vio­ lence, alternative ly contravening the Arts UnIOn of which Mr. years 3.20 when the Nationalist Rubens is vice-president, The Government sent him into exile. emergency regulations during the State of Emerge ncy last year. union was formed last ...ear to She lives alone, working in the combat restrictions in all fields fields and 100kiI12 after her While Mr. and Mrs. Strach an of art in this country . father's home in the hope that were away on holiday recently, the one day he will return to her. Her Special Branch, armed with a war­ Mr. Rube ns said: "As an in­ mother died a few years a(:o. At rant of arr est, went to the College dividual I can do no less than night she sleeps at the borne of to look for him. Mr. and Mrs. ident ify myself with these her uncle. Since the Human Strachan surr endered themsel ves The Basutoland Congress Party Women's League Executive, shown principles . Also my integrity as Rights Welfare Committee dis­ when they returned to P.E. and were above, h sending the two ladies in the mid dle of the row, Mr>. an artist demands my concern covered her plight about th ree released on bail of RIOO each. Mputhi, secretary , and Mrs. G. Masibane, chairman, on a visit to With essentially human values years al:O, she has been getting' They were remanded to Durb an the Soviet Union and China this month , Other members of the and with their rational utter­ help by way of food and clothes where they were due to appear on conunittee are. from left to right, Mrs. Phoroe , treasurer; Mrs. Sele ance and projection." parcels from time 10 time. July 19. Matseta , Mrs.N. Molapo and Mrs, Sethali. N~w AGE, tHURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961 Nkomo: 'Freedcm!"

LEF1': Mr. Unanisa Kuazira , a HereTo living in Sehitwa in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, told New A2e that althoU2h the Herero s had lil'ed lo~ in Bechuana land , "we want to litO back to Soutb West Africa. That Is our traditional land," RJG HT: The regent of the Bata· wana peop le of Bechuanaland, Mrs. E. Moreml, talks to Mr. C. E. Clark, the District Commissioner who was 0ll:3nisin2 transport and other facilities for the United Na­ tions Committee-s-until the Com­ mittee called the whole thiag off. BELOW: A 2roup of Hereros from the Sehitwa area waited to meet the United Nations Commit­ tee-and then went back to tbeir Zimbabwe Youth Demand Freedom Now homes. ·...... ;.;..=---:~~------.---:.------=---- I THE youth of Zimbabwe crowd of between twenty and Now that is like being told to ...------, thirt y thousand heard Joshua beware of a lion which is roaring (Southern Rhodesia) are Nkorno (the "Lion of Zim­ two-hundred miles away. instead determined as never before to babwe") , leader of the NDP, de­ of payinl: attenti on to the hyena clare tha t the people of his land whicb is biting your toe. The see that white supremacy and Did Not Want To Work must get back their rightful heri­ thill2 to do is to Ret rid of the all other forms of imperialism, tage. hyena. Who knows, the lion may The NDP, he added, is the be roarin2 for the hyena, so one colonialism and capitalism people's party and the people 's must leave the lion and the hyena will. It is the ship that sails on to fiRbt each other while one re­ "W here He Might Die" are "kicked to the back" once troubled seas to tak e the peop le to mains a free man. • It was the policy of the mine and for aU, reports our corre­ the pro mised land of freed om. "A f r i c a n s have never had spondent in BuIawayo. Many hardships are going to be trouble fighting that which they do Miner's Evidence At Coalbrook Inquiry ;~ k;~~s i ~f~ t i ~ ~d lOe~~:~ n ~sa s~~~~ Earl ier this month the Youth encounte red, he warned, but never­ not know; they have to fight that APARTHEID STILL EXISTS Council of the National Demo­ theless the NDP was making sure which they do know; they have SASOLBU RG. ~~~e a~do~f~d b:fu~~ n 1h; 0 ~i~~ S ~:' ~~~~e~~ caob~et b: l~ li~~ ' J;i;; to fight nothing else than imperia­ t: cra tic Party met in that city to that freedom was to be won this AS the prepara to ry examina- As a result of the apparent dang.r, fit. 0 • year- at all costs. lism and colonialism." plan how the future government tion i~~ all eg at ions of cul- some White miners asked for , aid 19:0 ~~~?e;E~e tA ~~~tht~e a~~i~~~~ IN BASUTOLAND of the country would be run . Mr. Nkomo had some stro ng • NDP referendum day is Sun­ From J. G. Kgasane "Where is your tax receipt ? Before the meeting was held a words to say about those who talk day July 23. After the referendum :~~e ~CU:::r~o~) th~~Ji:rie:; ~i~~v~~'a;~~n~~ertsh~O S~~f;igs of be ?h~u ~::~r a:i:1~a ~~~o ~e ~n ~~~ 1~ Where do you work? What kind of of the dangers of Communism: MASERU. mamm oth ra lly was organ ised by the party will make known what "B~~~~ aW~~:;~ ~~ i n~o~~~i ds ~~ work do you do? How many times the Youth Council at the White "They say-'Beware of commu· action must be taken in o rder to continues, further evi dence has a .methane gas explosion in the . in­ AF~~~~~Sb ~~ I~~~urt %~~ s~~~ have you been coming here for a City Sports Stadium. The vast nism, it is litOiD& to destroy you.' get freedom as soon as possible. be en g iv en by wi~~ th at: knowingly work in a place where he ~~.e /hl>~t.B~r ef~~~~~~~~ ~~e ~i~: liquor permit?" are some of the mi~\~e " ~a nu a ry in long queues at the District Com­ questions asked. PR ESIDE NT NKRUMAH •Larg e SUPfl0rtlOg .Pllla{s weke 21 the undr- manager Mr. James Ferguson, was missioner's office and apply for per­ Wben approach ed by protesting ~~r~Pc~~f :;~labi e~ ef~ ~o : i ?in~ a e ~ound manager , Mr. H. Eas hg- g~ ~1tYb~:nn e~~~e nt~e , t~~d ~::efiS~~~~ mits. No white person has been people. a senior official said that the HIGH PRAISE FOR MR. K. seen to apply for a permi t. Apart Commiss ioner's 5taff had no ri2ht to • The pillar s JD Section 10, wood, who i3 one of those cha ned Attorney Gene ral. fro m hav ing to wait in a queue , where the heavy fall that killed 435 with culpable homicide, was gill Mr. Ferguson is charged with the ask questions but had only to issue Africans are subject ed to lengthy in­ permits. Nevertheless the interroga­ =~ht~;~:e ~ha~ant~or:e 2~ w:~: ~~~":I~~;r~~ sse:r~am:~e~o :~~~ ~~ ~~~e; gi~~h~ p~e~~~~ e~uI~:bl eEh~~: terrogation by officials when they tion goe.. on. -Irom NkrulDoh ask for a liquor permit or a pass to Whites. some chiefs and other "A C HA MPION f th ------I ott;r ~~k~ : fa t~d~hn~f 4 inches ~~~~~:rl~::d ~~J1~ 0 ~~~n t~~i~ ::~: cide inquiry. visit South Af rica, privileged individuals are the only A~~n~~~:a ~ ~~OOOO"mwoo"oo~oow w wm~oom~ ~~u~ ~ the m~n ~s~bm~ m~~n we~ ~ ~v~~~~ m dl------~ ------~~~~~~---~ people exempted from the permit ~=- regulations . frienI d f ofhthe Idop,p,ressed peo- §=, Angola Patriots iVnereenigingg had beenroad,done,under strictly which againstmin- wasof Windstruckthat byhe such wasa liftedstrong up ba ntost NUSASCALLS FOR NON_RACIAL pes o t e wor • Fight On § the regula tions. the air and flung some yards drwn Many times the• young people and The se were the words used by § • T here were numerous small the passage. students from Roma College in Ba­ sutoland have tried to break the ~~~ f~~en~ f ~~v~~ahpr~~i~ha~iki~ T~~t~t~~ps ~;=Ugu:~: ~ colour-bar at the Lancers Inn hotel, 'SMASH BANT college was a clear indication that and in many cases their efforts have ~'::s~c~ o;ec~~ tt/u;r~~~d~ntb~i: find ing the. going. very ~ ~~ke ~h~e~::~t of¥ri b~ra~l~i vet~ resulted in court cases and imprison ­ GOVERNMENT ment. ~~ ~. :~~ _~~~~~n: J~I~g~~i~~t ~~~~ ~e~~i i~~~elre~~:~~~~~i~~ ~ ~~~ d~ ~~fh~~~ oi~~ i ~[J:~ ~~u~ ~~fst The African section of the hotel AUTHORITIES' Miners' Mass Meeting is at the hack, while the White sec­ J~Js ~ l~ e ~~u ~ o~~ I~:e ;. as t , which has against the patriots of An- ~_ JOHANNESBURG. •A resolution adopted by the tion faces the street. l The Organising Committee of the H'lghllOghts Of Durban C . He further described the Soviet gO~'e bombing of villages ~ (Co ntinued from page 1) Nations Commission investigamg ~~~:w~~ke~f~~ ~f i o~1I iSmf~e~~:~er~ sol~ fi ~~ s, :~~~~~Jn:y a t~:t~fU~o~~~ • Union as represe nting "a mighty with flaming jelly and the § fore. T he show of force and the the Territory, the S.A . Governmnt in the Tra des Hall , Kerk Street, on C f supporting the call for a noo-ra cial At the Maseru railway station fO ~;e~nkt::e~fa~~~n~;~~~ P~~c~i~ ~;ri~~~~-gh~~~t ~;enu~iffi;~ ~ ~~::r:~~nt t ~c;~c s no~ s e~ ~~n t~f ~ h / e ~ ~~~~ i ~~a t t ~h eu ~~oP~ h e i~ i l \ ~~: SUT~a~ ~A~~t ilARk J \~ ' 1 5 t h on erence ~; t~h~a~ r~i:::r~f~u~~~ "it~S \i~f:; ~~~~~:d P~~ce t~~ntiri~~~~to~~g~ Praise •••• ~~t~~t~~~;a~fy s :~d ~e;r:id~r~U~e~~ ili~u~~:d ifn~~~~~.;~ ~rt~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~t ~ h~~~h;~~~~o~h~fh t~: ~~~n;;i~u1~mlFr1c a~o r ~ :J ~~ aa l~o~~:A~~on~O~~~gre:~~~r:~ ~~~h~g~~~t:~td o~tl~~~i~e~~/~~~~~ PREMIER KHR USCHOV indepeude ce ANNIVERSARY OF THE NOW- DURBAN m 0 u I d e r i n g menacingly in explore ways and means of im- north the coloma list troops § people does not have to mobilise its We feel the deepest solidarity wth ht i'k ~ YJ 1 9 4 6~ INEWORKERS ' THE NUS~<\.s Natio~ C~n. ~~~~g')o.o~h ~ ~~ri~d ~~~ui~h~~~utt~~ urged all SRC's to make contact ISit·qouno. r'MWaenaypon<:Somanpdlasl'nigtnss hOafvseUbavelsro· proving trad e relations between have been unable to secure the § entire police force and the army. our oppr essed brothers in Souh Ch ief Lutuli, Prince Bereng of gress whi ch ended Its ten- begin will be full of storms and with any body whose aim was a us." h~';etd sf~~~P victory they had ~ of 1h : u8~~~r~~ntOfs tit;: s ~gr~~ s ~~ f~ ~ ~~~~aA~ ':I~~ ;h~nI1n ~t:~ g~1 ~~ ~~n~~I~~ ~a~utola ~d, Mr. Ju lius Nyerere of day session in Durban las t week showdowns which will not cease ~~~iio ~~ p:~ ~e ~~a t~";p~~!~~n~~e Cf~~~ ~~~~e~~~: a~;llW~~em~1~f~~~n~~~ Durin g his trip President Nkru- Although the losses suffered § with Angola and Rhod esia. Fearing there. ~~~~~r~ ~~n~C~eafs~~;:ts~aK~~~: unequivocally expre~sed its abo until the present regime i ~ removed in the campuses by means of de- cials, ~ ~~o ~ r~v~~ leeis~:~o v: r n~~~~vi~~ ~e ~~e~ ~~~anh~V~ve c~~t?n~~d ~ ~m ~ ~u~~~~~~:~s ~~t e~~~~I ~;~~~~~ NATIO NAL CONVENTW N of Bechuanaland are among those horrence of apartheid and sup- fro. ~~we~~:d ress by Mr. W. T. bates, symposia and lectures. • East Eur opean countries . their partisan warfare. G roups ~ in these countries our government is As the Go vernment grows in- who have been asked to send mes- ported th e demand for a Mhlambiso, a Fort Hare student ex- • A letter from the Association The Queen Elizahe th hospital at One of the immediate gains for of patriots attack Portuguese ~ seeking their co-operation in a com- creasingly desperate the propl,al i:~~s ~:p:~e~~~f.~int~~o~ee~~ nf;o: nmoenn-trafcoira lthedeUmmo~nra.tic govem· bPerollkeed adtowthne bwehgl!lnsitngadotels9s6J'nlg' wthho ~hi~n~~~~~~ , ~eh:h::cu~v~ r~~~~ ~a;\Iric~n~I~~t~~~retta~e~iin~cll~~r~~~ ~ e Gh ana as a result of the trip was convoys , block roa ds and mon effort to halt the approaching for a National Convention \lth 11 h 11 ed "" E the signing of contracts with Po- destroy bridges to slow down § coIlapse of reaction ary rule in sovereign powers must become he a T~ :s e ;~ ~ ::i o~ ~ b~f r eY~~dee~uate Highlight5 of the Congress were : Chl.osntogrrl.eCsseduocna t•.tohnealtrl'nasgtel.dtuYtJ'oOn• othuat ~ ili~t~e~~ui d' nh~db i~~li ~t ~a~thw.t~~~ ~nos~~~:~2~~c~~er~sis ~n~~s~~e pedO~pt~~ land, Hungary and Czechoslovakia Portuguese communic atl·ons. =_- Southern Afrl·ca. central theme of campaigning. 7,e ( . k . th • A messaoe from Nelson Man- ~~~t~~~ b~~~ n g H~n~~r~~~na'~~~~ ~:~:nr:~~h~ ~~;~e:ti~~e~f~~~ ~ po~~Wa~A~~C~sing ~frth:nO ~o ~:y s:~ ;~~ie~~;;l?i~~ wages mmewor ers are In e el Se~[etary'.. ~f N a tlO~fil. ~' ~7:n ; ~~ : i:~fJ Yt h~t ~~ f: ~~ r~~ r~~ can universities, they would take Isometimes spend a whole day wait- Th e new lowest-paid~~r igcaroup) , d~nof galle r o wou s rkers in ice~;o!!, ~Heran~u~ac~~np~a;s~~~dt~:the t:\~~~i~ ~ active steps to warn anybody con· ing for treatment. Outsiders some- agreed to build chemical and _ coffee crop in many areas. § tactics in controlling what they re- power; the other Non-White petpIe South d 'f0rkJ was bu ilt by the missionaries out of templating leavinl: this country (Bri- times even have to stay the night in elec.trica\ gO O~S fa c t or~e s 'ht h~tol~ S § hThe di~ty h c~loriall waJ ~ gard a~ a rapidly deteriorating see in it the full ~x pression l~f ~moh ~nPb~ ~~o rhe Pae;:~:\t ~h e J;y- th~,;~ce n t ghn~~al s~ri~~. b Af ' :~ ~ ~~hr~~ o~a~~~s:. -rc,~~/ i ~~e ~eur~~~ ~~~e~ilie:e:~~iU: d=hso~~r.: ~~~e~~/o attend clinic again the e ~n :~~~~nf~~t~r~.ps, an. t e zec .s ~ ~~:~J~ns witr eco~~~r~ r~in. ~ ~~d a ~ih;' s e~i;; ~~d~f ~;.~~ tl~~s:~ ~fri~an~u~;::J~~n 1 r o~ oappre~~~; long meeting. st demf a fC theJe~lOn Yd It" lesser men who are trying to destroy the present apartheid policy per- All these are indications that • Before embarkmg on hIS DespIte the Increased use of == are becoming routine in South and democratIc Europeans rdlse be~~v~r~:~~3 i~~~I~fdl~~~i~~;i~~ re~~: ~~~Ii'c,u b ~~e~ ~s i~ i~ o:rt~~e~p~r e~ : what h;:d been built up," he added. sists." apartheid still exists in Basutoland. tr ip the Gha naian President corn- forcel!- ~abour the Portuguese § Africa, in South West Afr ica and that onl y through the National (on- lets for the meeting. but the Orga- Slon and explOitatIOn of the Afnc an PEOPLE'S UN ITY ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIII IIIIIIIIIII II III Il II II U III III III III III III IIIII I III III III IlIIIIII III I II I III III III III II ~ mented shar ply on th ~ European colOnIalIsts have been unable~ on the bou ndaries of Angola. vention can the J<:<:p l.!Ivi,o n~ nising Committee is determined to pe.ople, demonstrates not o~ly the The GOl'emrnent were doiM' all == NEW AGE MAPOF FRIC = Co~mon ~arket, whIch he de- to secure more than half of t~e § The~e methods, like the manoeu· amon g the people bc' healed lnd continue with its work to ensure a failure of Bantu Edum hon to they could to b.reak the !iYm~1 of ~ AA~ ~gfcead t ;~ a y:~e greatest danger to ~gr1~~aal Ci~~lf ~h~P: i~:ov~~ ~ ;~:e ca :~d ~~fet~~U:~ n~~r:;' ::~ c atF~~~: e ~it~e d . the stub10m humper meeting~ ~~~~ h~ ~~~ ~::r~ s ot e~:r~ oM rf~aa~ ~~~ : ~O P I ~: o:~~ :en,~31d'l " W~e~ § § He said ' "We should aU oppose fIShed people are bemg factld - • il t the t f d b th ARRESTED Peaetlriinogt, bouft thAefrriCisaen of Naatlb' ounOaYI.asnmt Af ri ca ~ ~, I me~n Colo~~e~s,m I~- -_~ IF you m issed our June 26 issue of the paper; § it . .. why do they want to draw with ever more burdensome § ~n:r f:rces in aA :~ri~No ~oub~ approach of t~e Natiolldist fl • us into their association? taxes.. . § th e South African army officers wbo Government which refuseg to JOHANNESBU RG. which spells death and destruction *::; ;~ri:~ p:::le ~~~; ~ IF y~~ri~::e friends who would like a Freedom Map of ! •• • • for a " true friend." "With my little knowledge of The sacnfices WhlC~ the peo- ~ visited AJl:eria have taken a leaf recogni se the de m and fo r th e A former ANC Youth League to the evils of white supremacy", people." == ' == ~O;:~ ili~n ~~~~ f~O:~~Fa~~ i~;se~~~ f~e;~k~i~ofhei:~~~J~f ~~r:r~~ ~ ont o~~~MW'iST AFRICA National Conven tion, ~h e ~~~~~ d~~ ~ r~~ ~r gS~~:d:r ~~ ~~enp_ stated the letter. Mr. Mhlam biso was given a ~ IF you yourielf wo uld lik e an extra map- ~ Have you sent your " nomicall y. T hey want to make us tlOn are lm~ense, but Vlctory § The military exercises in South second phase of the campll~ pression of Communism Act. Bail ag~~~f ~h~s ~ o~:~~e~~d fr:rve~~: ~~~~; t i~ Vs~~~h ~~ ~~~;I~~ ~:tc~~: ~ You can order copies from your nearest New Age office at 1/. per § hewers of wood and drawers of must be theITS. § West A frica underline the uneasiness -NON -e O -OP E RATION- IS was fixed at £100 and the case was enorm ous crimes it has committed demning the conditions at Fort Hare § copy. Bulk orders (12 copies or more) at fid. per copy. ~ donation this week • water." :rrI1II1II1II1II1II1I1II11II1II11II1I1I1I1I1II 1II1II1II1II1II1II1IIlF. of the Government. With the United now launche d. adjo urned provisionally to July 25. against the African people are stated that the clo~ing down of the ~ 11 111 111 11 111 111 111 111 111 11 11 111 111 11111 111 111 111 111 111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111 1111111111111111111111IIl1ffl NEW AGE, THURSDAY, 1ULY 20, 196f The South African Press tells you there's star­ vation in .China, but the Chinese people say-"For the first time we have solved the food problem" WHAT I SAW IN CHI A A first-hand, eye-witness report from a South African who has just returned from a visit to People's China

"pOVERTY Grows As figures up to more than double "The old people went to pray the previous year. for rain and burned incense at the China Faces Collapse" New agricultural targets were temple, but stilI there was no rain. said the newspaper headline. set for the following year. But in So they took the God, who was It was the first thing I read in 1959 China faced severe natura l made out of ciav, out of the • the plane from Nairobi to Jo­ calamities. droughts, typhoons, temple. saying 'Let God of floods in some parts of the coun­ Heaven feel the hot sun-he will hannesburg, after returning try and insect pests that were then brina us rain.' But the clay from a tour of China. among the worst in living me­ God crumbled in the burnin~ sun Barely a month ago, I sat in the mory. The drought in some re­ and did not bring rain." office of the Cheng-Tung People's gions continued in 1960 and this Commune in Kiangsu Province. year, 1961. As a result. agricultu­ No More Prayers I There was a cloth on the ta ble ral production did not reach the Today, the old people no longer \\oven in bright stripes and pat­ glIIllI I IIIUIIIIIIIIllIllIIIIII II Ill II II III I I IIIIIIIIIIIIII III~ A\>!--=-t'I~. be COD inued next week) aliens, NEW AGE, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961

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This is not a pretty story. It is the story of the last months of Anne Frank, the courageous Jewish girl whose family was forced to hide for years in a room in Holland AS QUE as the Nazis searched for them. Her diary, one of the most moving documentsof our time, was discovered some years after the war. It has been reprinted, adapted for the stage A companion's account of her and filmed. This story picks up where Anne's diary ends. It is told by an equally courageousperson. Lin Jildati, in life and death in Auschwitz and an interview with Edith Anderson, correspondent of the U.S. National Guardian. LIN JALDATI Belsen Nazi concentrationcamps Teller of a bitter tale Dr. Mengele, immediately on we slept on straw." stand the cold, so she went back A MIDDL E-AGED Dutch ~m~~t;~rd~~ i r~~at :~ ~~~n~:~~i: arrival, for the gas chamber, be­ I:1November, storms blew the tents to the heated infirmary and got woman,Lin Jaldati , who in the diary that her mother cause of her age. For some rea­ down. and the Frank girls and typhus. So did Margot and Sonya. lives in East Germany, prob- didn't understand her, but I think son the Nazis did not gas political the Jaldatis were moved to a bar­ "Spotted typhus is a kindly disease," ably knows more about what that wa just an adolescent mood. prisoners, for whom a special racks with wooden berths. Lin related Lin Jaldati. " You pass "p rotective arrest warrant" was and Ianni took an upper berth happened to Anne Frank ~~~p~},u ng to her mother in the away in pleasant hallucinations. issued. and this was what saved and Anne and Margot the one Anne said, 'Oh, I'm so nice and after her diary was inter- The Frank family were brought to the Jaldati sisters. underneath. warm' and seemed quite happy. rupted than any other living Westerbork, a reception camp for "Anne used to tell stories after we From delirium you go into un­ s Life Or Death lay down. So did Mal'2ot. Silly consciousness. I know because person. b~~1n~i~~- J ~\? ~u ~~~~a nt9 ~~ fh: "T- will never forget Dr. Mengele," stories, and jokes. We all took after we buried the girls I got it. He: S~~~y E~~~a~~v~r~~e~f t~:' Lin Jaldati, her sister, brother and turns telling them. Mostlv they I was unconscious when the camp Lin Jaldati savs. "Slim, blond. was liberated." t with a finely chiseled, intellectual were about food. We would talk F. K. Kaul, GDR lawyer who face. J would know him any­ for hours about what we would Margot died first. Lin found her is now there as an observer, where. He's living in Argentina eat when we 20t home. Once we body on the floor, where she had today. The Jsraeli Secret Service talked about goill2 to the Ameri­ rolled off her berth.Two or three had been permitted to repre­ can Hotel in Amsterdam for days later she found Anne, a was after him as much as Eich­ small, still skeleton. sent her. mann. He made us sten on a scale dinner, and Anne suddenly burst Mme. Jaldati, a Yiddish folk singer, ri~ht into tears at the thought that we "There were two pits, a big one and and then waved his hand or a smaller one," Mme. Jaldati went through three concentration left to indicate life or death. lust would never get back. camps with Anne Frank. They "But we were a little better off for said. "There's a wooden sign at a casual wave-to the ~a s cham­ Belsen now saying Anne was shared their blankets and their ber." food in the barracks because we scraps of food and sang Chanu­ had work. and they fed you some buried in the small pit. That isn't kah songs together on Anne's last The Jaldatis lost track of the Franks correct. We dropped her into the for a while becau se political sort of soup there. We worked in Christmas. 1t was Lin Jaldati who a leather shop where we had to big one. The rest of the camp is found and "bu ried" Anne after nrisoners in Auschwitz were kept take shoes apart without tools, a NATO drill field now. All that she died of hunger and spotted in the so-called quarantine block , just tearing at them with our remains of Bergen-Belsen are the typhus. The rites at Bergen-Bclsen wh ere in fact cont agious disease fingers. Fingers got cut and many pits and a few gravestones with were simple: The emaciated body was bred. The water had always people died of blood poisoning. the Star of David on them." was laid On a blanket, carried by been contaminated irJO'\wiecirn. a Anne and I couldn't keep it up. Mme. Jaldati had visited the for­ four women to an uncovered pit swamnv neighbourhood full of our hands were too sensitive. so mer concentration camp two where other corpses lay, and malaria mosquitoes, and this was we stopped working and began months ago for a commemoration whv the Nazis chose the site. Tn to 'organise.' That means we ceremony organised by East and M~~p)~rd~~i' is married to a Ger- ~~---"""'-_....I a month 20 of the 50 women poli­ hung around other barracks wait­ West German anti-fascists. man anti-fascist, Dr. Eberhar d tical prisoners had died of diph­ ANNE FRANK theria, typhus or malaria. ing for food to appear, and we Rebling, now head of the College Full of spirit to the end stole whatever we could. I was Eichmann Trial of Music in East Berlin. They When the Red Army reached the very cood at it. and we did better married when he was in exile Vistula , the Germans started to than those who were working. But She is a fiery person, dark and from the Nazis in Amsterdam. At parents had already been there evacuate Auschwitz. The Frank we never stole from another pri­ volatile. "They'll get Mengele the time of her arrest she was 30 for a month. Lin sang her Yid· girls and the Jaldat is were sent in soner; we stole from the Nazis." yet," she said. Her eves filled with years old and the mother of a dish songs in the camp and struck the usual cattle cars to Berzen. tears. "And Globke. Let them 3-year-old daughter. up a friendship with Anne's From there thev had to walk tremble! Recounting life as a Nazi captive, mother, who loved art. three miles to Belsen. Last Supper "MAY BE THE WHOLE EICH­ she said: "We told stories and "Don 't let them telJ vou they didn't Lin Jaldati sometimes picked up MANN TRIAL IS JUST A jokes. We laughed and sang in Last Transport know about what was l!oin! on in scraps by singing. At Christmas. SHOW AND HE'LL GET OFF those camps, hard as it is to be­ the camps!" Mme. Jaldllti sai') 1944, the inmate in charge of WITH LIFE. THAT'S WHAT lieve." But when she finished her The Franks were in the Punishment hitter1v. "WE W AL KED food dlstribution slipped her a HE THTNKS, YOU CAN SEE story. she was crushed to teart, Section of the camp, for having TlfROUGH THE LUNEBU«­ handful of sauerkraut, and Anne IT IN THE CYNICAL GRIN "Can we say today that famine and tried to hide, and Lin and her GER HEIDE - BEAUTIFUL managed to scrounge an onion. ON HIS FACE. BUT MAYBE degradation even made cannibals sister Ian ni were there for under­ SOMETHTNG UNEXPECTED COUN TRY - IN RAGS. SKE· There were three other young WTLL HAPPEN AND THEY 'LL out of people? Is it right to tell ground political activities. After U :TONS, wrm SHAVED Dutch girls who contributed to such things?" she asked me. "To­ the Allies took Paris and occupied that Last Supper-Sonya Teixeira HAVE TO HANG HIM. AND IfE ADS. S OM E DROPPED HE'LL GIVE THE OTHERS ward the end at Bergen-Belsen, Belgium, the Nazis in Holland DF-AD A D LAY IN THE van Amstel, a year younger than when a new transport came from panicked. Those who were able Anne, a gay. gifted. optimistic AWAY. THAT'S WHAT I'M fled back to Germany, and the ROAD. MANY, MANY PEO­ HOPING. AND THAT'S THE Ravensbruck, there were life-and­ PLE STOODAND STARED AT child who sculptured dolls out of death fights around food pails. I commandant of Westerbork, Al­ bread. and Deetje and Hannelore ONLY THING THAT WOULD saw desperate people cut a piece bert Konrad Gemmeker, rushed US. RUT THEY DIDN'T Daniels. Sonya was Lin Jaldati's MAKE ME TELL THIS of flesh out of a dead body and the 3,000 people from the Punish­ KNOW!" favourite because she adjusted STORY. BECAUSE WHEN- eat it. Anne asked. 'Why do they ment Section to Auschwitz, in­ herself and never drooped. They EVER T HAVE TO RECON­ want to make beasts out of us?' cluding the Fra nks and the Jal­ Belsen Reunion STRUCT THESE MEMORI ES I sang Chanukah songs and "Waar BREAK DOWN." My sister told her, 'Because datis. It was the last transport. The Jalda tis found Anne and Mar­ de blanke Top der Duinen"-, _ they're beasts of prey them­ Jews rounded up in Holland after got again at the water trough on "Where the bright dune crests selves'." that were shot. the hill at Belsen. "We were glitter"- and cried for Holland NoPact With Portugal, ("Gemmeker is a businessman living wrapped in blankets. Suddenly we and home. The Daniels girls sur­ A Normal Child in Dusseldorf today," Mme. Jal­ saw two little shapes, also wrap­ vived, but Sonya shared the fate dati told me. "We published his ped in blankets, and they were of the Franks. Says Peace Council Anne at 14 was slight, with a few address in the DEFA document- speaking Dutch. We rushed to In January the Jaldati sisters volun­ -A protest against the suggestion soft hairs on her upper lip, and ary film, 'A Diary for Anne them. It was Anne and Margot. teered as nurses for a new bar­ somewhat protruding upper teeth. Frank ', and he had to move. We fell into each other's arms racks that was infested with ~~dt ;~si~~a ~~r i ~~ W~it;~iIP%rart~: She lisped a little. "She was a Then he appeared on West Ger- and cried. We asked the Frank illness. The whole camp was war in Angola has been sent to Montessori pupil, and they all man TV and said he didn't know girls about their mother. Margot becoming infested. For a while the Prime Minister. Dr. Verwoerd, kept diaries. It was part of the AU'lChwitz was an extermination said one word: Selected. Our they lost sight of Anne and Mar­ by the SA Peace Council. method of education." The Mon- camp!") parents had also been selected. got. Then the Daniels girls came "South Africa has no auarrel tessori system of developing self- They rode three days and three We took the girls with us to our to tell them the Frank sisters and \\ ith the people of Angola," says expressing individuals had grown nights, standing up in cattle cars, tent and stuck together. Four Sonya were down with dysentery the Peace Council's letter. "It is our so popular in Holland that the to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Brzezin- blankets were warmer than two, in the infirmary barracks. The earnest belief that any military board of education in Amsterdam ka) the women's camp, where and one of us constantly stood Jaldatis visited them. It Was assistance which this country might had taken over many formerly there was a gas chamber and a watch for when the food came. heated. at least. But because it give would not only create a grave private Montessori schools. crematorium. Otto Frank was You had to jump for it, or it was heated, disease spread more threat of open warfare in our own Anne was full of fun, but easily separated from his family and would disappear immediately. rapidly. This was almost the last country-assistance leading to the dejected. whereas her older sister sent to the men's camp a few Auschwitz was organised hell, but stage in the pitiful chronicle of war being carr ied over our borden Margot, who was 16, was quieter, miles away in Oswiecim. He was the part of Belsen we were in was Anne Frank . She returned to her - but might well lead to the inter­ more controlled and more opti- later liberated by the Red Army. unorganised hell. There were four barracks when she was feeling vention of otber countries. thus re­ mistic. "The two girls were deep- The mother was "selected" by big tents, like circus tents, where better, but she was too weak to sulting in another world war." NEW AGE, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961

Cricket Conference Support Only India Will Oppose No Passport For S.A. Application LONDON. Dr. Jordan Non-Racial Events A promise that the Indian Cricket Board will oppose the tions were made to the Minister on admission of South Africa as his behalf by the Principal of the a member of the Imperial University and others, but were of Cricket Conference has been no avail. In Sport conveyed by Mr. Surjit Singh Author of a Xhosa novel and Majithia, Deputy Minister of many articles on the Xhosa lan­ Defence of India, in a cable to guage and literature, Dr. Jordan was South African United Front also prominent in politics as a mem­ leader Dr. Y. M. Dadoo. ber of the Non-European Unity A similar decision has been Movement and the All African SCOREBOARD taken by the President of the Convention and was one of the few o I' '11 Board of Control for Cricket members of those bodies to take a in Pakistan, Field Marshal Mo­ leading part in the campaign against hammed Ayub Khan, accord­ university apartheid. ing to a spokesman of the [ I I"bvRECORDER"II Board. The conference takes place this week. R4 For Damage To Property CAPE TOWN. A Coloured man, James Williams. Griquo Africans And Coloureds and a youth were found guiltv of damaging property and sentenced to 20 days or R4 when they appeared in the Magistrate's Court in Cape In Thrilling Match Town in connection with incidents From L. W. Himson arising out of the end of May slay­ at-home campaign. G~~~;ed~ fr;~~:d a~d d~~~~~ They were acquitted on charges 3-3 draw in their inter-race soccer of intimidation. clash of the Griqualand West Soccer Board's Inter-Union league series for the Wilfred Orr cup at the Weightlifting Union Grounds, Kimberley, recent­ ly. This match. the last game of the Championships first round, took the Africans to the The regular hammering of our top of the log. rugby set-up in the Press is having Just when it seemed that the Afri­ some effect. Latest developments: cans had the match all tied up, after leading 3-1, the Coloureds came out • For the next eight weeks. of the blue in a late rally to score Eastern Province rugby will be two quick goals in rapid succession having a knock-out competition to level the tally. which will be open to all clubs in The score was even at half-time. the province. This is an excellent The Africans established physical venture and deserves full support. and psychological mastery over the Coloureds in the second half, but then lost concentration. The Afri­ cans' defence went to sleep to the extent that their backs were caught off guard. Apart from scoring the Col­ oureds' first goal before the interval, Coloured-African Test TAKE OUT A SUB· SCRIPTION FOR NEW BOXINGTOURNAMENT in Cape Town 1======AGE TODAY Mr. Orrie's "S.A. Non-European Boxing Board" is now planning an July 29 RATES inte r-nr ovinc ial tournament in From L. W. Himson Union of South Africa and Cape Town on September 26 and Protest Against Banning Of Protectorates: 27. This is the bodv that sold out K[MBERLEY. 21/- for twelve months R2.10 and joined the Whites on an apart- South Africa's premier Non- I I{- for six months RI.10 g~idu~e~i ~sT~~ ~;~~ ~l~~U; s i~~ I ~ White sporting event-the tradi­ C.P.C. Leaders! 6/- for three months 60 cents Overseas: conference at which the non-racial ~~~~~ r~ ~g txV"t=~~' ~e tle n Afr~~~ 25{- for twelve months R2.50 ~J~~d~o r the boxers can be re- XV-will be played at the Green 12/6 for six months RI.25 WE MUST MAKE A FRESH ~~.int Track in Cape Town on July British Postal Orders. cheques or Bank Drafts accepted. START ON A NON-RACIAL These national "tests" were inau- Post to: 55 BASTS. Natal and the Transvaal gu ra ted in 1950. The Africans won New Age, 6 Barrack Street, should now request that such a the first match. but since then have MA ME Ell N CAPE TOWN. conference be held. not won a game, thou gh three of G:;'N;;"I;o"O;~~~N~ the seven matches were drawn. lU~'4l, SFT_UP. THEN THE The question of the momenl is: WHOLF. OF CAP1\, TOWN Will the Africans get their own RACING AT ASCOT SHOULD BOYCOTf IT-and back this year? Looking at the the other provintes (e~!ledaIlv Mr. material the selectors have chosen The following are Damon's selec- Mistry's Natal) should refuse to for the South African Coloured XV, GR J \RADE tions for Saturday: take part. ~i1jl~ g~~ttf~~ e w~ ~~~~~e~em~~~~~l; \ B rT~klr~ D:R';nd~ ~ a bo l d 1sm~~~I~~ ;::~O:i:~''' i s I TH ESOCCER in the SA Coloured ~ M~~:~::Ch~:'ndicap (2nd Division): SCRA MBLE ~':e:e~~~~~:~s~ f'S~~~~h(Cs~:~t SUN 23rd TOP TRAVEL Danger, Drug There is a faint chance that a A Van Heerden, captain (c. Karoo), Store. ioint meeting of the S.A. Soccer D. Van Briessies (E.P.). A. Aysen Ascot Handicap (2nd Division): League and S.A. Soccer Federa- (0. West); halves: G. H. Abed TORELLO. Danger, French tion will be held to settle their (W.P.), A. Blanchard (W.P.); for- Drama. differences. There seems to be wards: G. Edwards (B.P.). W. Phil- Trial Handicaps CAT'S WALK. ~~~:J~lrs~n~f~: :~~e siJj':f~e1i~~~~ ~~~el\E(~:~ .)~·R~~~~~~~ (~~~j , t pr~:r:: ~ rS i ~o ~e~G~~o;TA R . Dan- ;i~;dane~~~~ ret~hO~~~i~~/ ~~~~~ ~ri:STa~~ ' ~~.)~a );~i nFn ~·~ pJ; Speakers: Mr. BARNEY DESAI, cu« GEORGE PEA KE 3 ::~ ~~:::~~;d Stakes: CHERRY ~l5~~~i , F~:rlH~ E~A~~J>l di~e(W~~ .~· ~: ~ ; ~e~~ ~':: ~~: Mr.TOFY BARD/EN and OTHERS SLEIG H. Danger, Royal Pearl. THE R. renee Erasmus (E.P.). (Inserted by S.A.c.P.c., 8 Helderweg, Alhlone) Juvenile Plate (Fillies): VILLAGER. Wolfson & De Wet. F.N.A.O. th AIt~h~~/h ~o~I~~~~~ntre b~1~e~~ Danger, Labellum. (Eng.). Qualified Sight-testing and B~land and" Western Province has I=~~~~~~~~~~~~~======-~ Dispensine Opticians, 4 King not been finally decided.. an agree- Pu bll bed b Real Pri U d Publlshl Co (Pty ) Ltd e B k street c Woolavington Cup : Georze Street (between Bree and ment has been reached between the ~o~ ma:£~~~+U1": f~~~~~:!rE o~~i~~~~D~~ eM:~ ~'o~~ :Rl ;:-eTh I S D8WSPa.= I. AIR TRAVEL Plein Streets), Johannesburg. two finalists that the match will be JO!WIDe6burr: 1 ~ Pro gress BuUdID!!s. 164 CommlasloDer street, Phone 22.'626. 2. Aden Peace Plea~ ~t~ C~ang~ °i f~d d ress . ohye d ~n Cape Town, a ~r.0 hd i nt t ~~..~ ~;o iI:U:~ k o~; ~~~ ~=~ :::!.rapbio~ddrela : fl U_Ie, C.T. ;b:~ ~;e/R~~b /If~ ~ ~~ ~n °K i~berle~'-1 a57~. 3. Tbe Giant. 20 0 °Zz.i 34 caM Pon BllzabeUJ; 20 Coun Cbambel'l , l%V Adderley Street, PhoDe